Dave and all,
Dave Crocker wrote:
> At 12:07 PM 3/14/99 -0400, John Charles Broomfield wrote:
> > I believe that giving a company "rights" to the registry of a given
> >gTLD should be completely out of the question. "Leasing" out the running of
> >gTLD registries in such a manner that the whole database remains under
> >control of something like ICANN, however, would sound like a Good Idea (tm).
>
> Essentially all of the public discussion of this topic has focused on
> business and speech issues. It has essentially ignored the topic from
> which this activity stems, which is the topic still at the (pardon the pun)
> core: operations.
Not all or even the majority of the discussions or debate have centered
around business and speech issues. Much discussion as we all know has
centered around operational issues and a potential for "Decentralizing
of the ROOT and Registries", pardon the pun...
>
>
> The domain name system is a key piece of Internet operations
> infrastructure. There are common standards for the Internet which must be
> adhered to, in order to achive stable interoperability. The IETF
> specifications provide the base technology, but do not cover all aspects of
> administration and operation that are also required to be homogenous, for
> stable, global Internet operations.
Again good point here Dave. Hence it is becoming clearer that the
need of a decentralization of the Root structure may be a preferred
method of approach as others have pointed out.
>
>
> This latest series of proprietary changes to an important subset of the DNS
> administrative information service -- namely the Whois database --
> undermines stable Internet operation, for the reasons cited by others.
>
> d/
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